Πέπονες

soft

Translated by William Hutton20 Sep 2011Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 24 words

[Meaning they who/which are] dissolute, weak.¹
In the Epigrams: "so that he may winnow very quickly the fruit from soft ears."² Meaning ripe [ones].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πέπονες· ἔκλυτοι, ἀσθενεῖς. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ὄφρα τάχιστα λικμήσῃ πεπόνων καρπὸν ἀπ' ἀσταχύων. ἀντὶ τοῦ ὡρίμων.

Betacode

*pe/pones: e)/klutoi, a)sqenei=s. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: o)/fra ta/xista likmh/sh| pepo/nwn karpo\n a)p' a)staxu/wn. a)nti\ tou= w(ri/mwn.

1= Synagoge, Photius pi611 Theodoridis; ultimately from commentary to Homer, Iliad 2.235 and/or 13.120, where this form of the word (nominative/vocative plural) appears, and in the pejorative sense indicated here. (Elsewhere in Homer the word appears with the positive connotation of 'mellow' or 'gentle'; and cf. pi 1012.) ↩
2Greek Anthology 6.53.4 (= Bacchylides 2.4 Irigoin). See another excerpt from this epigram at pi 1632. ↩

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